Thursday, October 13, 2011

- Enjoys new experience - Enjoy physical activities - He is interested in music and dancing - Artistic - Can fix his own meal - Good in conversation, telling the story - He is usually seems happy - He join activities/playing with his peers - He is also helpful

2.3 Weaknesses of the child

- He easily get bored - He can't handle pressure - He have trouble in pronunciation - He have trouble in writing

2.3 Target outputs

- Since, the child is having hard time in pronunciation and writing, we want to focus in writing and reading (to at least correct his pronunciation). We want him to learn how to enjoy his lesson. We are targeting to build his foundation in understanding and learning one of the important skills of a child which is writing and reading.

2.4 Our Lesson Plan

First Day: - Introduce/Review the Alphabets and numbers - Teach the proper pronunciation

Since Verleen is already know the alphabets, Teacher Christal review this to him. While they are starting the lesson, the child was excited to learn from his Teacher Christal but unfortunately, since he already knew the alphabets his excitement turn to boredom. But then, when Teacher Christal motivated him by giving him a reward every correct pronunciation of the letters, he starting to enjoy it again.

Proper pronunciation

- He Pronounce the Alphabets well, but some of his consonant letters cannot pronounce it properly. When he pronounce the letter "N" he pronounce it as letter "M", his letter "F" sounds "EP", his letter "V" pronounce as letter "B" and his "W" pronounce as "Dalbyu".- He pronounce the numbers properly from number one to ten.

The second day of tutor is kinda excited for the child, because Teacher Christal promise him that if he will pronounce correctly the consonant letters; N, F, V and W. He will be rewarded. The Child again are motivated to learn.

Indroduce/Review: Lines and Shapes

For the second day, our new lessons are Lines and Shapes. Teacher Christal introduce the Horizontal Line and Vertical Line. She introduce also the basic shapes; Round, Triangle, Square, and rectangle.

Tracing the Lines and Shapes

After introducing/Reviewing the Lines and Shapes, Teacher Christal start to teach him how to trace the lines. He is presently active during their lesson. He enjoy tracing Lines and Shapes.

Third day of tutor, Teacher Edlyn review the previous lesson of the child from his Teacher Christal. Verleen now still enjoying tracing the Horizontal Lines and Vertical Lines. He also enjoying tracing the basic shapes.

Matching Lines and Shapes

After the tracing, here come the next step which is matching the lines and shapes where we can find out if the child can read the object properly. And he matched all of the objects well. Because of his very good performance, Teacher Edlyn give him three stars, Verleen like it well. Teacher Edlyn observe that Verleen also motivated by craving for the stars which it is also a reward during their class activities.

Tracing the Alphabets

Of course after tracing the Lines which is the first step in learning to write, Teacher Edlyn now let the child trace his alphabets. And the performance of the child are getting good. But some of the alphabets don't trace well but it is normal for a four year old child like him that having hard time when it comes in writing or tracing a letters, since they are just starting learning it.

Introduce the vowels

Teacher Edlyn now introduce the vowels. So that in the next day of tutor, the child could have a background of the lesson. He pronounce the vowels well but when Teacher Edlyn ask where is letter "A" for example, the child are having a hard time to recognize the vowel "A".

Teacher Edlyn, review the previous lessons. When Verleen got almost of the previous lessons; Tracing and Matching Lines and Shapes, she gave the child three stars. Teacher Edlyn observe that because of that three stars, the child get excited for the new lesson. The child also ask like this "Teacher Edlyn, do i still have a star later?" when Teacher Edlyn answered it "Yes, if you will listen to our lesson and got it right, you will have more big stars" then the child was so excited to have his big star.

Matching the big and small vowels

Previously, Teacher Edlyn introduced the vowels. Today, Teacher Edlyn will test the ability of the child in recognizing the big and small vowels. The child performance is not so good but not so bad, it is average. He can match some of the big vowels to the small vowels but some are not.

Tracing the vowels

For the next step in learning to write, Teacher Edlyn give another activity which is tracing the vowels. The child performance is great.

Writing his name

Then, after tracing the vowels. They move on to the child's name. Verleen now tracing his name. While Verleen tracing his name, Teacher Edlyn pronounce the letters of his name, so that Verleen will also know how to read his name and learn which is "V" or "E".

Teacher Christal was the one handling the reviewing materials of the child. She reviewed him for 30 minutes and the remaining 30 minutes is for the final test of the child.

FINAL TEST RESULT

A. Tracing Alphabets and numbers- The Child is very good. He traced it well, he got four stars.

B. Matching Lines and Shapes- The Child is great. He matched the lines and shape correctly. he got five stars.

C. Matching Big and Small vowels- The Child is good. He match 80% of the vowels. he got three stars.

D. Writing his name- The Child is very good. He wrote his name and he can also pointed where the letter "E" is. he got four stars.

4. Findings and Recommendation after the invention

We find out that this child is really intelligent, if only the parents and companion of the child can give extra time to teach him and let him explore learning, this child will be great. This child is really motivated in learning especially if he knows that other people recognize his work and give him a reward like candies and stars.

Recommendations:

We observe that sometimes he have a hard time remembering some of the letters. He have trouble learning visually, so we suggest that they need to be guided through any lessons with charts, diagrams, graphs, or other visual learning materials. For example, the teacher may need to tell him how different parts of a diagram relate to each other and why.

5. Reflections

We have learned that it is not easy to teach a four year old child. Since they are in cognitive years, we, the teachers should teach him properly and step by step because the children cannot acquire all at the time, it should be one at the time. But, we're proud that, even it is just a short period of time, we gain his ability when it comes in writing and reading.